Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Study halls were open air whenever the weather permitted. Said Sawney: "I would rather make my living plowing on a steep, rocky hillside with a blind mule than imprison innocent children." Part of a thicket was ruled off for the principal's "office," where malefactors met with a beech switch. When a parent criticized this "barbaric" teaching method, he replied: "I'll continue to use it as long as they keep sending me young barbarians to educate...
...business future, reassuring. For the second consecutive week it cracked badly. The Dow-Jones index of industrial stock prices fell 5.95 points in one day, the sharpest break since May 1940. By week's end it was down 8.56 points to 189.19. The decline was as steep as the one which signaled the collapse of the last big bull market in 1937 (see chart). (Some Gloomy Guses observed that the 1937 recession was also preceded by piling up of inventories...
Blows were traded in Naples' steep and narrow alleys, but not this time over politics. The issue was more intimate. In Italy, as much as anywhere else, war and military occupation had played hob with marriages; but men & women who wanted to shed their mates and start afresh with new ones were out of luck. By virtue of the 1929 Lateran Treaty, the state followed the law of the church, which in rare cases grants annulments (30 out of 75 requests from all over the world in 1944-45)-but never divorce...
...France, the Communists were demanding steep wage increases as the price of their cooperation in a regime pledged to curb inflation. Said Christian-Democrat Assembly Leader Gronchi: "They get all the advantages of being in the Government (four Cabinet posts) while their colleagues on the outside get all the advantages of waging a campaign of opposition...
Near by, built directly against the rough mountainside, was the Festspielhaus, through whose cavernous yard had boomed the theatrical damnation of Dr. Faust. The G.I. metamorphosis had turned it into a movie house, nostalgically named the Roxy. And around Salzburg's steep Bierjodelgasse (Beer-Yodel-Street) G.I.s noisily scouted for beer gardens...